He prefers to stand on his progressive soapbox proclaiming the power of his utopian vision to rational argument.

Democracies require defending for what they are, not for some utopian vision of what they might be, and espionage sometimes requires a willingness to subsume principles for a greater good.

Both, too, advance what they see as a utopian vision of the world.

Ideologies do continue to dominate, however, at the non-state level, where constellations of individuals come together around a utopian vision to threaten the old order.

It breaks the utopian vision that fails to deliver.